For more than 100 years, the middle of the summer has signaled the Tour De France annual bike race across France.This year, due to the pandemic, the world's most watched bike race is delayed.But there is a heavily watched virtual one going on every weekend.We look down then on the avatars of the riders in this virtual Tour De France.World class bike riders and teams are racing against each other on their own bikes at the same time often from their homes,and the world is watching them bike and play what looks like a video game.I recently spoke with Eric Min, the C.E.O. Of Zwift, the company enabling this virtual tour,and racer Lauren Stephens, a professional cyclist who recently won the second stage of the virtual Tour De France.As they make their way across the line, who takes it?It looks to me like Lauren Stephens I think may well have taken the stage.First of all, congratulations. You're a winner of this stage of the Tour De France.You don't get to say that very often. Most people don't understand what's happening here.You're riding in Dallas, Texas, where you are now, and you're competing in a virtual race. How does this work?So, our bikes are set up on what we call a Trainer.Think of it like a treadmill for a bike.And what that does is give the resistance to our bike.So if we go up a hill, it's going to put more resistance on our bike.And if we're going downhill, we'll get less resistance.So everybody is feeling the hills, so to speak.Right. The other component is at the crank of our bike where we pedal it measures our output.
100多年来，环法自行车赛每年夏季都会举行，而今年，由于新冠的爆发，世界上最受关注的自行车比赛推迟了，不过每周末都有一场备受关注的虚拟自行车比赛。我们俯视这场虚拟的环法自行车赛车手的化身。世界一流的自行车手和团队在自己家里同一时间进行比赛，全世界都在看着他们像视频游戏一样的比赛。最近，我采访了Zwift(室内自行车健身软件)的首席执行官埃里克・闵，Zwift为这次虚拟巡回赛提供了支持。此外还采访了车手劳伦・斯蒂芬斯斯，他是一名职业自行车手，最近赢得了虚拟环法自行车赛第二阶段的冠军。他们就要到终点了，夺冠的会是谁呢？我感觉应该会是劳伦・斯蒂芬斯夺得本阶段的冠军。首先，祝贺你，你是环法自行车赛本阶段的冠军，你不会经常这么说哈。很多人都还不明白到底发生了什么，你在德克萨斯州的达拉斯骑行，就是你现在在的这个地方，然后你在参加一场虚拟比赛。那么这场比赛究竟是如何运作的呢？所以，我们的自行车安装在一个我们称之为“骑行台”的设备上。把它想象成自行车的跑步机。它的作用就是给我们的自行车增加阻力，所以如果我们上坡的话，它就会给我们的自行车增加更多的阻力，如果是下坡，阻力就会减小。所以说每个人都会有上坡的感觉。是的，另外一个部件在自行车的曲柄处，也就是我们踩踏板的地方，它会测量我们的输出。
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